BILL NUMBER: ACR 106	CHAPTERED  08/22/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   108
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   AUGUST 22, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   AUGUST 18, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 31, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   MAY 26, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Battin and Zettel

                        JANUARY 10, 2000

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 106--Relative to the Senator
David G.  Kelley Highway.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 106, Battin.  Senator David G.  Kelley Highway.
   This measure would, on and after the date on which David G. Kelley
ceases his service in the Legislature, designate the portion of
State Highway Route 86 that is between 82nd Avenue and 66th Avenue in
the County of Riverside as the Senator David G. Kelley Highway.
   The measure would also request the Department of Transportation to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers showing this
special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost and upon the designation of that highway,
to erect appropriate plaques and markers.




   WHEREAS, Senator David G. Kelley, a Republican, was elected to the
California State Senate in 1992, and is currently in the last two
years of his second term of office representing the 37th Senate
District, and before that, he served for 14 years in the California
State Assembly, to which he was first elected in 1978; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley was born and raised in Riverside County,
attended local schools, graduated from California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo, majoring in citrus fruit production, and
interrupted his education with service as a pilot in the United
States Air Force during the Korean conflict; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley has been a successful citrus rancher for
over 45 years in the Hemet area, where he first became concerned with
the increasingly complicated relationship between government and the
agricultural industry; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley has been active in the Riverside County
Farm Bureau since 1955, where he served as both president and vice
president for a total of eight years, and also served on the board of
directors of the California Farm Bureau Federation; and
   WHEREAS, Concern for the effects of property taxes on agriculture
led Senator Kelley to become active in the establishment of an
agricultural preserve program in Riverside County and to sign the
first prime agricultural land preserve contract in the state in 1966;
and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley was appointed by then Governor Ronald
Reagan to a committee to advise the Legislature on development of a
policy on open-space lands; and
   WHEREAS, In 1968, the Peace Corps approached Senator Kelley to
help instruct trainees for service projects in southern India, and
during 1970 and 1971, he supervised replacement trainees on location
in India; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley, who has always been active in community
affairs, served as director of the Hemet-San Jacinto Basin Resource
Conservation District for 10 years, served as president of the
Century Club of Riverside County, and is a member of the Hemet-San
Jacinto Noon Exchange Club, the Lincoln Club of Coachella Valley, and
the Farm Bureau; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley currently serves on the following
committees in the Senate:  Agriculture and Water Resources, Vice
Chairman; Appropriations; Business and Professions; Constitutional
Amendments; Energy, Utilities and Communications; Transportation; and
the Senate Select Committee on Southern California Water Districts
Expenditures and Governance, of which he is the Chairman; and
   WHEREAS, Senator Kelley and his wife, Brigitte, are the parents of
four grown children, have 10 grandchildren, and are members of
Trinity Lutheran Church in Hemet; and
   WHEREAS, On October 26, 1977, a schoolbus of the Coachella Valley
Unified School District was involved in a multiple truck accident on
State Highway Route 86 in which four persons were burned to death and
the lives of 52 schoolchildren in grades Kindergarten to 4th were
endangered; and
   WHEREAS, On April 23, 1980, a schoolbus of the Coachella Valley
Unified School District collided with a truck on Route 86, resulting
in the death of three high school pupils and the bus driver; and
   WHEREAS, Since he was first elected to the Legislature in 1978,
Senator Kelley has been tireless in his ongoing commitment to
improving the dangerous portion of Route 86 on which many fatal
accidents have occurred, commonly known as "Killer Highway," by
submitting numerous requests for the funding of improvements and
negotiating with the Department of Transportation, the Riverside
County Transportation Commission, the Coachella Valley Association of
Governments, community leaders, and state and county officials to
improve the safety of this portion of the highway; and
   WHEREAS, The Legislature wishes to recognize Senator David G.
Kelley's extraordinary service to the community, particularly as that
service has resulted in improvement of this especially dangerous
portion of Route 86; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That, on and after the date on which David G.
Kelley ceases his service in the Legislature, the portion of State
Highway Route 86 that is between 82nd Avenue and 66th Avenue in the
County of Riverside shall be designated the Senator David G. Kelley
Highway; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Department of Transportation is requested to
determine the cost of appropriate plaques and markers, consistent
with the signing requirements for the state highway system, showing
the special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate
sources covering that cost and upon the designation of the David G.
Kelley Highway, to erect those plaques and markers; and be it further

   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit a copy of
this resolution to the Director of Transportation.
